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Bob Ward boobs again over rainfall records
Posted by Telegraph: Christopher Booker on March 19th, 2011
Telegraph: What an odd fellow is Bob Ward, Policy and Communications Director for the lavishly-funded Grantham Institute on Climate Change at Colonel Gaddafi' s favourite British university, the LSE. Mr Ward seems to see it as one of his main roles to act as chief attack dog for the global warming industry, firing off incessant complaints, letters and articles savaging anyone who dares question its cherished dogmas.
On our letters page last week, he yet again took me to task for suggesting that autumn 2000...
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Mozambique and Mauritius to cooperate on environment
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 19th, 2011
allAfrica: The governments of Mozambique and Mauritius agreed on Wednesday in Maputo to extend bilateral cooperation to include environmental issues.
This was formalised through the signing of a memorandum of understanding by Mozambican Environment Minister Alcinda Abreu and her Mauritian counterpart, Devanand Virahsawmy, who is on a two-day visit to Mozambique.
Under the accord, both countries will cooperate on the environment, focusing on climate change, marine pollution, environmental education, the...
Japan Races To Reconnect Power To Nuclear Plant
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 19th, 2011
National Public Radio: Emergency workers in Japan scrambled to connect a new power line to the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex Saturday even as officials said the facility's tsunami-shattered equipment may be unable restart critical cooling systems.
Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. hoped to have power reconnected to four of the six reactor units, starting with reactor No. 2, on Saturday and another on Sunday.
It's an especially complex operation because workers must sort through Fukushima's badly...
Tanzania: Snows of Kilimanjaro defy global warming predictions
Posted by MassLive: Stan Freeman on March 19th, 2011
MassLive: If there is a poster child for global warming, it may be the vanishing snows of Kilimanjaro, which were predicted to disappear as early as 2015 in a widely-publicized report a decade ago.
However, the famed snowcap is stubbornly persisting on the African peak and may not fully vanish for another 50 years, according to a University of Massachusetts scientist who had a hand in the prediction.
The 2001 forecast was indirectly part of key evidence for global warming offered during the 2006 documentary...
Japan Races to Restart Reactors’ Cooling System
Posted by New York Times: Ken Belson, Hiroko Tabuchi and Keith Bradsher on March 19th, 2011
New York Times: Scrambling to corral a widening crisis, engineers linked a power cable to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station early Saturday as they struggled to restart systems designed to prevent overheating and keep radiation from escaping. The Tokyo Electric Power Company, which runs the plant, said it hoped to connect the electric cord to the cooling equipment inside the facility later Saturday in an attempt to stabilize the reactors that were damaged by the powerful earthquake and tsunami...